The Other Film Festival 2026
PRESENTED BY FED SQUARE AND THE OTHER FILM FESTIVAL AS AN ALTER STATE EVENT.
Celebrate International Day of People with Disability and the closing night of The Other Film Festival (TOFF) 2026, with a free screening of six Australian short films by Deaf and Disabled creatives.
Catch the free, curated short film program, exploring stories of belonging and identity, presented as part of The Other Film Festival (TOFF).
The screening is also a great chance to meet and celebrate with filmmakers and audience members from this year’s festival.
This screening will have an accessible viewing area.
FILM PROGRAM
Black Time White Time (2023)
12 minutes | Australia | English
Director: Edoardo Crismani | Writer and Producer: Tammy Coleman-Zweck
A tech-savvy teen, who relocates to live with her Deaf Aunty, must learn Auslan and deal with a technophobic, reclusive watchmaker, who challenges her world.
Some Kind of Blue (2025)
16 minutes | Australia | English and Cantonese
Director, Writer and Producer: Rae Choi
After moving into her late mother’s home by the beach, a musician is confronted by another kind of loss as mysterious mementos and phantom noises blur reality and memory.
Dark Matter (2024)
10 minutes | Australia | English
Director, Writer and Producer: Leo Berkeley
A disabled man tries to solve the biggest question in physics, a solution to the theory of everything, while rubbish piles up on his balcony.
The Mark (2025)
6 minutes | Australia | English
Director: Inez Playford | Writer: Harald Hummerston | Producer: Emily Bull
London, 1917. As Virginia and Leonard Woolf painstakingly handprint their first publication, we journey into the stream of Virginia’s mind as she is struck with paralysing anxiety, stopping the press in a bid for time.
With Love, Lottie (2024)
12 minutes | Australia | English
Director and Writer: Lily Drummond | Producer: Sarah Moulton
When a disabled teenager fears she will never find love, she enlists her friends to become her mentors in the unpredictable world of dating and discovers that love can come in unexpected ways and different forms.
So Beautiful (2025)
9 minutes | Australia | Auslan and English
Director and Writer: Sofya Gollan | Producer: Rebecca Janek
An experimental short documentary about an Auslan Sprite who must protect her sign language for those who need it most